wdporter

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   by wdporter 7mo ago

   I think he might mean it does not fully prove anything. Is the dash an awkward attempt at a pun?
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   by wdporter 9mo ago

   I find this page the cleanest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters . I can usually just do a Ctrl-F and find what I want.
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   by wdporter 9mo ago

   Easy on windows: press and hold the alt key, and then 0151 on the numeric keypad.
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   by wdporter 9mo ago

   If you're on windows and have a numeric keypad, it's alt-0150.
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   by wdporter 9mo ago

   alt-0151 (numeric keypad) on windows Some other useful ones to memorise: 0150 the endash, 0133 the ellipsis, 0145 the single quote opening, 0146 the apostrophe/single quote closing, 0147 and 0148 for double quotes, 0149 for a bullet po
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   by wdporter 9mo ago

   true, perhaps, but a colon would have been more appropriate here and programmers should be familiar enough with them also.
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   by wdporter 9mo ago

   Agreed. Good typography is good writing.
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   by wdporter 9mo ago

   I probably shouldn’t presume to speak for the OP, but given that they’re optional, I would think so, yes.